Chapter 796 Suspicion
Daji: ...There are differences between men and women. Men and women should not touch each other. Boys and girls under the age of seven should not sit together...Forget it, they never followed it anyway.
Daji pretended not to see it and turned around to feed the horses.
Bai Shan found a handkerchief from somewhere and gave it to Man Bao, asking, "Do you want me to get you some water to wash your face?"
Manbao also thought that crying looked ugly, so he nodded.
Bai Shan ran out and got her a basin of warm water. After watching her wash her face, he dragged a chair and sat across from her, asking, "What's wrong with you?"
Manbao turned around and ignored him.
Bai Shan sat aside and waited for her, neither leaving nor asking any questions.
After a moment of silence, Manbao pulled the longevity lock out of her collar and recounted everything that had happened today, from the moment she met County Magistrate Tang to the words she had just seen.
Bai Shan turned the longevity lock around her neck and simply stretched out her hand and said, "Take it off and let me see it."
Manbao took it off and showed it to him.
Bai Shan looked up and down, and also looked carefully inside against the light, and found that there was indeed something engraved inside, but he couldn't see it clearly with his eyesight.
Bai Shan thought about it, lit a candle and went to look. He looked hard for a long time, and finally saw the word "Zhou" vaguely. He closed his sore eyes, turned the page over and continued to look. It took a long time before he saw a word, but it was very blurry and black, and he couldn't recognize it at all. But he was sure that it was definitely not the word "Zhou".
Bai Shan put down the longevity lock, looked at Man Bao, and said in confusion: "So your mother's surname is Xia? But your mother loves you very much."
It doesn't seem like they are not biological children. Although Bai Shan has seen them rarely, she doesn't think the eldest wife would be good to the child born to the concubine if she puts herself in her shoes.
Bai Shan paused at this thought and asked cautiously, "Can your father afford to take a concubine?"
Manbao: ...
She was so angry that she grabbed the pillow on the bed and slapped him, "How can you be so stupid? Can my family afford such a good longevity lock? So this must not be given to me by my father. I, I may not even be his child."
"But there's also a 'Zhou' character in it."
Manbao just remembered this. She had just been too sad. She blinked and asked, "So my father's last name is also Zhou?"
Bai Shan: "How can you be sure that you are not my biological child? What if your parents found this longevity lock on the street and gave it to you?"
Manbao thought about it, shook his head, and said, "If I had found it, my mother would never let me wear it around my neck. She would have sold it for money long ago. Even if I kept it, my fourth brother lost money gambling and the family couldn't afford the extra money. I asked to use the longevity lock as collateral, but my mother didn't agree."
Manbao stroked the longevity lock and said, "When I was younger, my mother would touch the longevity lock on my neck every night before going to bed. One time, I thought it was too heavy, so I took it off and put it aside. Then I couldn't find it, and my mother got so anxious that she spanked me. That was the first time I could remember being spanked."
"Also," Manbao glanced outside quietly, then whispered to Bai Shan, "My brothers have always said that I'm very smart, like my dad, but..."
Before Manbao finished speaking, Bai Shan understood.
Because Old Zhou really can't be called smart.
Manbao said: "I always feel that I look like my mother, but my brothers always say that I look like my father..."
In the past, Manbao would not take such words to heart, because she felt that there was no difference between looking like her mother and looking like her father, but now her son thinks that the difference is too big.
Since her father is definitely not smart, then why do her eldest brother and others insist that she looks like her father?
Manbao burst into tears and cried, "I'm not my father's daughter..."
Bai Shan was also confused. It was the first time she saw her crying so sadly. She could only stuff the handkerchief in her hand back to her.
Manbao wiped his tears and cried uncontrollably. Bai Shan could only comfort him awkwardly, "Maybe you're overthinking it. Your parents are still your parents."
"Then tell me, where did I get this longevity lock? It can't be that my father stole it from somewhere, right? How heartless is my father to give his own daughter a stolen longevity lock?"
Bai Shan also nodded, "Besides, your father doesn't have the courage."
"That's right, my father has always been timid."
Bai Shan looked outside. He heard Zhou Silang and Zhou Lijun coming back. He lowered his voice and asked, "Should I ask your fourth brother?"
Manbao thought about it and shook his head, "My fourth brother will definitely not tell me."
"We let Daji scare him."
"My fourth brother's hand is fine, so don't scare him," Manbao said dejectedly, "and I think he won't tell you even if you scare him."
Manbao said, "I'm so smart, and my family has been able to hide it from me for so long. How could they tell me as soon as I ask?"
Bai Shandu was worried about her and asked, "What should we do then?"
Man Baoqiang cheered up and said, "For now, let's not worry about whether I am my parents' biological child or not. The more important thing is the case that County Magistrate Tang and his men are investigating. I don't know what case my father is involved in. I asked County Magistrate Tang, but he wouldn't tell me at all."
Bai Shan stood up and said, "You can ask Brother Zhou Si about this. If he's willing to tell us, we can piece it together ourselves and maybe we can guess your background."
Manbao's eyes lit up slightly, and he nodded, "I think so too, but how can I ask this? I can't just tell Fourth Brother exactly what Magistrate Tang said to me, right?"
Bai Shan rolled his eyes and said, "Don't worry, I'll go and tell him, just wait."
Manbao looked at Baishan and nodded.
Seeing that she was calm, Bai Shan smiled and said, "Are you okay? Your fourth brother and niece are back. Wash the tears from your face first, don't let them see it."
Manbao nodded and stood up. Zhou Lijun pushed the door open and came in. Hearing voices in the compartment, he looked in and was stunned to see Bai Shan was actually in his aunt's inner room.
Seeing his aunt's red and swollen eyes, Zhou Lijun immediately walked around the screen and came forward, "Aunt, Master Shan, did you fight again?"
Bai Shan: “…No.”
Zhou Lijun didn't believe it, "Why is the little aunt crying?"
Manbao looks at Baishan.
Bai Shan: "...Forget it, if you say so, then so be it."
Zhou Lijun immediately said, "Master Shan, you are all grown up, how can you still fight? Besides, you are a boy, you are very strong. Look, you beat my aunt to tears."
Bai Shan opened his mouth to argue, but stopped when he thought of something. He lowered his head and looked at Manbao thoughtfully.
Manbao sat on the chair and shook her legs guiltily. After Zhou Lijun had muttered several times, she said, "We didn't fight, at most we had an argument."
Bai Shan nodded perfunctorily and asked, "Where's Zhou Si?"
"Outside."
Bai Shan walked out and said, "I'm going to talk to Brother Zhou Si."
Zhou Lijun stared blankly at him running away, then turned to Manbao and said, "That's really strange. He made you cry, little aunt. Why is he chasing you instead of hiding from Fourth Uncle?"
Manbao looked at the window without saying anything.
Zhou Lijun felt that his aunt was particularly quiet today, and he couldn't help but take two steps forward and asked softly, "Aunt, what's wrong with you?"
The next update will be around 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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